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April 6, 2023
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Professor Jiang Wu Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
University of Arizona Department of East Asian Studies Professor and Center for Buddhist Studies Director Jiang Wu is one of 171 scientists, writers, scholars and artists awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship. Wu said he was thrilled to be named a fellow and called the honor a "gratifying moment that comes after so many years of hard work and research."Read More
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April 24, 2017
Sony Coráñez Bolton, Assistant Professor of SpanishDepartment of Spanish and Portuguese
Dr. Sony Coráñez Bolton received his Ph.D. in American Culture and Ethnic Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2016). He is currently…
April 10, 2017
The UA's David Soren, Regents' Professor of Anthropology and Classics, talks with The Atlantic about the surprising connection between baseball and vaudeville. Soren will teach a course about the Forgotten Stars of Vaudeville this summer as part of…
April 7, 2017
The Arizona Daily Wildcat reports on a COH-sponsored display of ritual Buddhist art:
As part of a religious studies expansion, the UA has brought three Buddhist monks to campus where they are currently creating a mandala from only colored sand, to…
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April 4, 2017
College of Humanities Dean Alain-Philippe Durand received the top faculty honor for 2016-2017 at the UA’s Visionary Leadership Awards Ceremony.
In his first year as Humanities Dean, Durand received the UA’s Richard Ruiz Diversity Leadership Faculty…
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March 16, 2017
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University Communications
UA researcher Colleen Lucey explains that famed Russian authors of the 19th century reimagined prostitutes as martyrs. Click here to read the full article in UA News.
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March 10, 2017
Congratulations to this year's COH Teaching and Outreach Grants Awardees!
Straight to the Goal!
Spring 2017 Teaching and Outreach Grants Awardees:
Naomi Caffee
Dept. of Russian and Slavic Studies
Project: Russia and the Muslim World: an…
March 8, 2017
COH Dean Alain-Philippe Durand speaks with ShareAmerica about hip-hop and its ongoing international evolution, describing a powerful form of expression with universal themes.
Read the full story here.
March 3, 2017
Dean Alain-Philippe Durand is very happy to announce Dr. Nick Ferdinandt, Dr. Sonia Colina, and Dr. Robert Côté as the next directors of the Center for English as a Second Language (CESL), the National Center for Interpretation (NCI), and the…
Feb. 24, 2017
Are you a science fiction fan? Add issues related to race, gender, class, and socially prescribed identities and you soon have “Afrofuturism”. Read more from Africana Studies Assistant Professor Bryan Carter as he describes the movement and how it…
Feb. 23, 2017
Video game archivists are divided on how to protect the medium’s history, but they know we need to do it now.
By Jacob Brogan
Ask someone about their earliest memories of playing video games and they’ll often tell you about the physical experience…
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Feb. 21, 2017
The Poetry Center is part of a national coalition of poetry organizations working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds.
Twenty…
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Feb. 21, 2017
College of Humanities Prof. Melissa Fitch, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, has been selected as a University Distinguished Professor, the most prestigious teaching recognition at the University of Arizona. She joins a very impressive list of…